Senior Manager at BasicGov, and previously played an instrumental role in the success of Vancouver's tech mainstays such as Elastic Path, Appnovation and Traction of Demand, Ryan now sits at the BasicGov table.

With fever for agile project management and a gift for authentic relationship building, Ryan focuses on how to drive sales, build efficiencies and create organized chaos. And he’s no slouch on the climbing wall.

Ryan Supeene

Co-Founder @Vancouver Founders

A serial entrepreneur, engineer, startup mentor, instructor and community organizer.

Co-Founded 5 startups. Mentored and trained 100+ young entrepreneurs. Worked with Fortune 500 companies and World's Top 100 Brands.

20+ years of comprehensive large-scale project, business and engineering experience. Extensive knowledge of startups, management, events, hackathons, software engineering and team management.

Rama Ibrahim

VP Product @Heroic Labs

Alim Jaffer is the VP Product and member of the founding team at Heroic Labs (Y Combinator S15) which builds Nakama - the open-source, distributed server for realtime games and apps. He has been involved in startups for the last 4 years and has lived in San Francisco and London, England.

He has experience in SaaS offerings, open-core business models, growth, business development, and product iteration in order to find product market fit.

Alim Jaffer

Program Instructor

"A budding entrepreneur takes off around the world to discover the best healing practices, on a quest to create wellness environments that blend ancient and modern methodologies."

"Our app is now the most trending app in the US among teens. We surpassed Tinder yesterday morning. Thank you for the guidance throughout the program. Learned tons"

"LEAP is directly responsible for our first round of funding."

Our Alumni

"Two months after recipe testing, and in less than a year, Bosch brought the idea of innovating candy that kicks sugar into national retailers in Canada."

"Virtro is now a diverse team where we are grateful to say we are creative, productive, and proud of the appls, games, and experiences we make."

Ash Maurya is the author of the international bestseller "Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works" and the creator of the one-page business modelling tool "Lean Canvas". His new book is "Scaling Lean: Master the Key Metrics for Startup Growth".

Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.

Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies.